Combination Pricket and Socket Candleholder
Artist
Unknown
(Netherlandish or German)
DateSecond half of the 15th Century
CultureNetherlandish
MediumBronze
ClassificationMetalwork
ProvenanceEmile Gavet, Paris (cat. #279), approximately 1870s-1880s; sold to Mr. and Mrs. William K. and Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt, Gothic Room, Marble House, Newport, Rhode Island, 1889-1982; transfered to Mrs. Alva Erskine Smith Vanderbilt Belmont in divorce; purchased by John Ringling, 1928; bequest to The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1936
Credit LineBequest of John Ringling, 1936
Object numberSN7020
On View
Not on viewHEIGHT: 14 7/16 in. (36.6 cm)
Unknown
Mid-seventeenth century, the base probably nineteenth century
Early 15th century
mid 19th-mid 20th Century